John Rouillard wrote:

>   2007-10-25 10:54:00 Aborting backup up after signal PIPE
>   2007-10-25 10:54:01 Got fatal error during xfer (aborted by signal=PIPE)

This means the problem is on the other end of the link - or at least 
that the ssh driving it exited.

>   lastlog got digests fdb1c560d9ba822ab4ffa635d4b5f67f vs
>   fdb1c560d9ba822ab4ffa635d4b5f67f
>     create   400       0/0       65700 lastlog
>   Can't write 33932 bytes to socket
>   Sending csums, cnt = 16, phase = 1
>   Read EOF: Connection reset by peer

The process on the remote side is gone at this point.

> If I am reading this right, the last file handled before the signal is
> /var/log/lastlog which is << 2GB (65K approx). When the signal occurs,
> I guess /var/log/ldap is the file in progress.
> 
> The ldap file is 22GB in size:
> 
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]$ ls -l ldap 
>   -rw-------  1 root root 22978928497 Oct 25 18:46 ldap
> 
> Could the size be the issue?

Yes, it sounds very likely that whatever is sending the file on the 
remote side can't handle files larger than 2 gigs.

> I have:
> 
>    $Conf{ClientTimeout} = 72000;
> 
> which is 20 hours and the sigpipe is occurring before then.

You'd see sigalarm instead of sigpipe if you had a timeout.

> Also is there a way to tail the xfer logs in realtime while the daemon
> is controling the backup? So I don't have to wait for the backup to
> finish?

You aren't going to see a problem in the log file - the other end is 
crashing.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
      [EMAIL PROTECTED]


-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.
Still grepping through log files to find problems?  Stop.
Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser.
Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
[email protected]
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

Reply via email to